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Disc cysts are uncommon intraspinal cystic lesions located in the ventrolateral epidural space. They communicate with the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc and cause symptoms by radicular compression. We report a unique case of lumbar disc cyst that was associated with disc herniation and contralateral radiculopathy. A 22 year old male presented with one month history of back-ache radiating to the left leg. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) showed L3-L4 disc herniation with annular tear and cystic lesion in the extradural space anterior to the thecal sac on right side, which increased in size over a period of 3 weeks. L3 laminectomy and bilateral discectomy and cyst excision was done with partial improvement of patients symptoms.

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The evaluation of children presenting with urinary tract infection (UTI) has long entailed sonography and cystography to identify all urological abnormalities that might contribute to morbidity. The identification of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) has been of primary concern since retrospective studies from the 1930s to 1960s established a strong association between VUR, recurrent UTI, and renal cortical scarring. It has been proposed that all VUR carries a risk for renal scarring and, therefore, all VUR should be identified and treated. We will not discuss the controversies surrounding VUR treatment in this review focusing instead on a new paradigm for the evaluation of the child with UTI that is predicated on identifying those at risk for scarring who are most deserving of further evaluation by cystography.

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We report a successful
treatment of the first reported case of Guillaine-Barre Syndrome (GBS) detected
post Off Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (OPCAB). A 70-year-old man
underwent OPCAB surgery for Triple Vessel Disease. In the post-operative period
he developed respiratory distress with unexplained weakness in the limbs. CSF
study confirmed Guillaine-Barre Syndrome. He was administered immunoglobulin
therapy. The patient fully recovered and was discharged in good health.

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Leguminous plants provide protein and oil to humans and animals and fix atmospheric nitrogen, and are thus of considerable economic, ecological and biological interest. Most crop legumes are polyploid, and are not amenable to molecular genetic studies. Two legume species, however - the fodder crop Medicago truncatula (barrel medic) and the wild species Lotus japonicus (trefoil) - have recently emerged as model legumes because of their short generation times, diploidy and small genomes. The availability of these legumes enable investigation into aspects of plant biology that Arabidopsis lacks, such as symbiosis between plants and microbes. Recent research on these model systems was reported at the meeting.Because of their association with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, legumes are crucial in understanding the interplay between symbiont and host plant in the establishment of symbiosis. Using arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi as the symbiont, Maria Harrison (Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Oklahoma, USA) has identified M. truncatula mutants that fail to support the formation of fungal hyphal ingrowths (arbuscules) in the plant's cells (Figure 1). She also found that some of these mutants fail to form a symbiotic relationship with the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti, indicating an overlap between the two symbiosis pathways. Similarly, Martin Parniske (John Innes Centre, UK) reported the identification of sixteen L. japonicus mutants, falling into six complementation groups, all of which fail to form symbiotic relationships with both rhizobia and AM fungi. Igor Tikhonovich (All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Russia) described various pea (Pisum sativum) mutants that cease nodule development at different stages. By exploiting the natural genetic variability in M. truncatula, Jean Denarie and Thierry Huguet (CNRS-INRA, Tolouse, France) have identified ecotypes that fail to recognize different rhizobial nod (nodulation) factors, which

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In this note we define and discuss some properties of partition of unity on *-inductive limits of topological vector spaces. We prove that if a partition of unity exists on a *-inductive limit space of a collection of topological vector spaces, then it is isomorphic and homeomorphic to a subspace of a *-direct sum of topological vector spaces.

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The purpose of this note is to extend Warner's idea of “bornological structures “ to cover non-locally convex situations and to develop a framework unifying several variations on an ultrabornological theme (for example, ultrabornological spaces, o-ultrabornological spaces, i-ultrabornological algebras). We do this by first generalising the concept of a “structure ” on a vector space as defined by Warner.